Every page of the new resource I’m reading reminds me of Mr Howard. Our Chemistry teacher. Bless him!

Mrs Howard was the R.E. teacher and they both lived in an amazing house about 30 seconds walk from my childhood home. They are both long gone and their house (after decades of being left empty) was bought last year. It’s being renovated now.

We all loved the pair of them, ‘specially Mr Howard who was a brilliant Chemist but had NO IDEA about teenagers !

Needless to say, I didn’t learn much in his class. And I’m feeling the lack of it now.

Apparently : in “Ancient Times” there was no such thing as BLACK paint. All artists used carbonated something or other.

Another totally useless fact from G.B. :o)